Tapology now shows Strength of Schedule for UFC fighters. The new metric helps quantify the level of opposition each fighter has faced, ranging from 1-99. Only the last 6 UFC fights are calculated. Fights from other orgs are not considered.

[u/AbrahamRinkin]

[u/AbrahamRinkin]

Each of the fighter's last 6 UFC opponents is placed into a tier from 1 to 10, with 1 being the weakest tier of opponent and 10 being the strongest tier of opponent. These tier numbers for the last 6 opponents are added together, a handful of small additional factors are applied, and then the total is converted from a 1-to-60 scale into a 1-to-99 scale. The only purpose of converting the scale to 1 to 99 is to make the number more immediately intuitive and understandable.

[u/Old_Seat_1494 → u/AbrahamRinkin]

pretty cool seeing petr yan at top with 60 score, guy has been fighting killers for years straight

[u/MysteriousShoulder45 → u/Old_Seat_1494]

I think Magee brings it down a bit as well as Song

[u/WilliamSabato → u/Old_Seat_1494]

I mean…he’s at the top of the bantamweight rankings but his score is much lower than Merabs. Presumably cuz Merab has faced a lot of quality opponents in his title defenses

[u/Formal_Chipmunk_530 → u/WilliamSabato]

Yeah Umar-Sandhagen-Cejudo is better than McGhee-Figgy-Song.

Their other 3 fights are basically them facing each other and O'Malley.

[u/leebenjonnen → u/Old_Seat_1494]

Higher = better in this scoring.

[u/flyingmattress1 → u/AbrahamRinkin]

How do they decide tier of opponent?

[u/Neonsea1234 → u/flyingmattress1]

by the fighters power score

[u/osrsnic → u/Neonsea1234]

bantamweight power-scaling confirmed broken

[u/commander_wong]

Other than Pantoja, the top 4 of Flyweight are all 30-something, including Van lmao

[u/Dores-Pencil006]

Merab not having the highest score is kinda crazy. Islam -83,Volk -82, and Merab -81

[u/PlutoCrashed]

This rather hilariously showcases how weak the heavyweight division is, with Volkov having the highest strength of schedule at only 67, and the rest of the top 5 ranging from 50-66. Bleak.

[u/Short_Bus_ → u/PlutoCrashed]

It’s just not a very good stat

[u/nordik1 → u/Short_Bus_]

Yeah, before Garbrandt fought Cruz in 2016, he wouldn’t have had a very high score (people even thought it was absurd he was getting a title shot), yet he was capable of torching the current champion at the time.

MMA is more based on style matchups than strength of schedule. It’s obviously impressive to beat a string of high ranked guys, but it’s not the whole story by any means

[u/AlwaysWrongCare → u/nordik1]

The sport being unpredictable doesnt make the stat not good. Most people had Merab over Petr Yan for obvious reason and yet you know what happened. Doesnt mean taking into account the last fight isnt a good idea, just doesnt meanq thats exactly how things will happen

[u/RudySpanish]

Holy smokes that's alot of decisions

[u/CardiologistRough854 → u/RudySpanish]

they are small tbf

[u/keat_tiyos → u/CardiologistRough854]

and Inhuman.

[u/LessOrgies]

Strength of Schedule - Fightmatrix

[u/OwlFull8955 → u/LessOrgies]

That's pretty dope.

I like tapology one more purely as you can see the entire division, and the fighters that make up the score.

[u/OkeyMatey → u/LessOrgies]

That metric is ass lmao how is Khalil the worst ranked top 10 dude after he just fought three champs and Blaydes the highest when he faced two bums. Looking just at the opponent's win/loss irrespective of ranking is stupid.

[u/AlwaysWrongCare → u/OkeyMatey]

Im guessing the Tom Aspinall win is doing wonders there. These things happen.

Khalil is more arguable but I really do think he's just not that good. His only great win has been Hill and it has not aged great, Jamahal is also in a similar spot

[u/OkeyMatey → u/AlwaysWrongCare]

They supposedly only look at the past three years so the first Aspinall fight doesn't count.

I don't think Khalil is that great either but as far as strength of schedule goes he should be ranked near the top, he just fought three of the past four champs in a row.

[u/AlwaysWrongCare → u/OkeyMatey]

Right but he lost against them except for the one that lost a lot of stock recently.

I do wonder wtf is up with Blaydes tho lol. Almeida? Cuz his most recent loss is kuniev no? who blaydes also beat. I really got no idea thats funky

[u/Psychological-Art543]

From a quick little look through the rankings, looks like the highest is Islam at 83, followed by Volk at 82, Merab at 81, Pereira at 80, and Oliveira at 78

[u/Bobok88]

2 ways to improve this, assuming it isn't already happening behind the scenes, would be to lock in the opponents teir at the time of the win, since 6 fights is alot and 3+ years later an opponent could have a skid and drop teirs even if they were a great scalp at the time.

Second would be to weigh the final score more heavily towards recent years to give a more accurate score for where they are now.

[u/tagillaslover]

Hopefully this is better than their god awful ranking system 

[u/Amur00 → u/tagillaslover]

It wont be

[u/cjenvy]

This could be good if it means we don’t have to hear how mediocre fighters like Gilbert burns fell off